January, 2013
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Amazon Outage Has Shoppers Contemplating Leaving their Homes, Yeah not likely…
Shoppers had to leave their homes for a brief period of time to get their shopping done today, while the mega-retailer Amazon experienced a roughly 45 minute outage. Some savvy shoppers however found it easier to choose other online retailers that were not experiencing an outage to purchase their wares. The outage only seemed [...]
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Can RIM Name Change Help the Blackberry Maker?
The company RIM was laid to rest today and a new company has emerged, Blackberry. The announcement came at the much-anticipated Blackberry OS 10 launch today. The unexpected company name change came as a surprise for many of the media present that were there to see the latest OS and the new hardware that will [...]
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Microsoft Surface Pro Loses 40+ Gigs to OS
Set to release on February 4th, the new Microsoft Surface Pro has what some might call a slight flaw. The Windows 8 tablet device storage is gobbled up by around 41GB of out of the box OS and seems to leave little storage for day-to-day use. The device which has many excited about native applications [...]
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The Channel’s Next Big Thing
It seems like every couple years there is a new “big thing” in the channel. The last five years has impressed us with a long list of new, or at least big things such as Managed Services, RMM, BDR, and the cloud to just name a few. In all of those categories new vendors came [...]
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Cisco sends Consumers and SMB IT Solution Providers Packing with Linksys Sale
Cisco Systems has announced the sale of its Linksys brand to Belkin for an undisclosed sum bringing an end to affordable networking solutions for small business solution providers from the company. The move, which is an obvious attempt for Cisco to get back to its roots of enterprise level superiority, is no surprise to those [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 106
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Opposite World: Apple Revenues Up Stock Down Microsoft Profits Down Stock Goes Up
In what seems pretty unexplainable, investors are having some pretty interesting reactions to the latest numbers being released by tech companies. Apple has once again posted record earnings, though they didn’t quite meet analyst expectations, the company is still sitting pretty on a hefty sum of cash. Apple today had one of its worst single [...]
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2013 Channel Choice Awards, Rain Makers
Looks Cloudy Channel Choice Awards Announcement
Orlando, FL. —Jan. 28, 2013— Looks Cloudy announces its first annual Channel Choice Awards. The Looks Cloudy Channel Choice Awards honors professionals in the IT Technology Channel. The award is made up of exemplary leaders in the IT space and serves to recognize those individuals who have made a public impact on the channel. The award [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 105
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Intel Shutting Down Motherboard Business
Intel has announced plans to get out of the motherboard manufacturing business in the next three years. This surprise move which speaks to the continued fading sales of desktop PC’s, is sure to impact the few remaining IT companies that build and white label PC’s. Though this may have a small affect on the SMB [...]
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Could Microsoft’s Hardware Push drive them to Invest in Dell?
The news today was abuzz with information that Microsoft is talking with Dell to invest up to $3B of financing for a Dell private takeover. Dell needs an estimated $20B to take the company private and has been in discussions with finance groups to get the needed capital. The problem with this news is it [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 104
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Is there Turbulence in HP’s Cloud Division?
HP is in the news again, the latest being the departure of its Senior VP of Converged Cloud, Zorawar Biri Singh. The departure calls into question the latest in a string of issues HP has faced. With a declining stock price, cloud services appeared to be one of the divisions that could help a defunct [...]
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Microsoft Straight Trippin Windows 8 Gets 5X More Expensive
If sales of the already dismissed version of Windows 8 wasn’t lagging enough, Microsoft through their blog today announced the current upgrade price for Windows 8 Pro will go up from $39.99 to $199.99. The initial upgrade offer expires on January 31st giving those who have not yet upgraded a chance to do so before [...]
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Microsoft Security Products Fail Independent AV-Test Certification
The independent security-testing firm based in Germany AV-Test conducts security testing on most major software security platforms. The company independently tests and certifies products through a stringent process of testing and research to provide an unbiased, factual review. Microsoft Security Essentials 4.0/4.1 for Home users as well as Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 for corporate [...]
